- Stanford
Oral Communications Program through CTL (help on oral
presentations)
- American
Rhetoric site.
Focused primarily on oral rhetoric, this site is invaluable to those
interested in creating oral presentations. It includes a wide variety
of sound clips from both historical sources and movie speeches; in
particular, be sure to browse its Online Speech Bank.
- Commencement
Speeches. On this Webpage, users can find links to recent
commencement speeches as well as President Kennedy’s historic
address at American University from June of 1963.
- Archives
of American Public Address. “Douglass is an electronic
archive of American oratory and related documents.”
-
The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation. Dated 19 November
1863. This humorous reworking of Lincoln’s famous speech as
a PowerPoint presentation by Peter Norvig makes a powerful argument
about the dangers of PowerPoint and incited much discussion on- and
off-line. Be sure to follow the link to Norvig’s reflections
on making the presentation.
- Great
American Speeches. This Website contains “one of
the most comprehensive on-line collections of speech texts of contemporary
American History.” In many places, it contains video as well
as audio files.
- Historic
Ads and Speeches.
This portion of C-SPAN’s Classroom site includes clips from
the 1960 televised debates.
-
Public Address Rhetoric.
This section of the Douglass site offers links categorized under titles
such as Fresh Rhetoric (recent examples of public rhetoric), Communications
links (links to communication studies resources) and Reference links.
-
Public Speeches on C-SPAN. Part of C-SPAN’s classroom
site, this page offers links to recent speeches broadcast on C-SPAN
and includes an “Analyze a Speech” activity.
- Video
Gallery.
This collection of video clips from WPIX-TV in NY contains some footage
of speeches by former President Ronald Reagan, including the 1984
Presidential debates and Reagan’s 1986 address after the Challenger
tragedy.
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